Once a "bad guy" chopped of the hand of a saint with a sword. The saint continued walking as if nothing had happened. Seeing this the "bad guy" fell at the saints feet and questioned him that how could he be so detached to the pain in his body?

The Saint replied ," DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN DO WHAT YOU LIKE "

In the nothingness of the present moment there is peace, peace and more peace. In order to experience this we need to "kill" the mind and the saint in the story seems to have adopted the boldest and the most direct way to do it.

If I have to make myself wait in the present moment and get thrilled about its absolute nothingness I need to wait for longer than what my mind would find it comfortable. Mind is thrilled about "something". In the present moment there is " Nothing ". The mind needs to be severely discouraged about all its hopes of finding bliss in repeatedly performing the same mundane activities. If the mind finds something charming it just means that it is not fully awake right now.

The ignorant would chase the object of beauty and the wise would direct awareness inwards to further awaken the mind.

I think this is one of the greatest Self effort.

DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN DO WHAT YOU LIKE!

JaiGurudev

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Beautiful Rashmin....the only act of Viveka is as Guruji puts it : a choice of moving towards light (self awareness) Vs moving towards darkness (pleasures, desires). And this choice is sometimes very hard. Until the mind awakes or at least tastes this greater pleasure, it keeps making the wrong choice and reeling in these smaller pleasures...Like a "worm in pus" as the Yoga Vasishta succinctly puts it.

Amazing, Amazing, Amazing..and may I add I Totally needed this right now!!!WOWand a few hours back I was thinkingIf I have no feverishness, If I see myself in everyone...there is so much emptiness around, a nothingness prevails, there is no apparent lack....yet something lacks...

there is so much wonder, such fullness in such emptiness...

Aho!

And that is all there is !!"In the nothingness of the present moment there is peace, peace and more peace"

As what I could make out of this post is...After being in the Art Of Living and practising religiously Sadhana,Seva and Satsang...Gradually when u actually make it to enjoy the 3S's...At that time,when a choice comes to make a choice between two things example a dear friends party and Satsang(only one i get to attend in a week(suppose thats the only Satsang u attend in a week))then at that time I will not keep doing the same thing I wanted to do always and I will do things I like,love to do...be in a Satsang...Making intelligent choices keeping the 3S's a priority,the one which i love to do....instead of things I want to do because its been a tradition a habit for me...Finally I would do what I like to do....bringing more centeredness and serenity......Mind Atlast at peace....Love,Jai Gurudeva :-)Swapnil :-)

Its as if i have understood and not both at the same time!!! what a feeling! I WANT to ask you for an explanation but will NOT DO that :-) but i would LIKE you to explain the line " DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT AND THEN DO WHAT YOU LIKE " in more detail in the next post :-)))